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USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware
DeathToBill writes "Hack A Day reports on the attempts of open hardware hackers to obtain a vendor and product ID for their devices to be able to sell them as USB compliant: 'A not for profit foundation [in this case Arachnid Labs] could buy a VID, give PIDs away to foundation members making open source hardware, and we would all live in a magical world of homebrew devices that are certified as USB compliant.' The USB Implementers Forum, which controls the sale of PIDs, has lawyered up, responding to the effort with a cease and desist notice, requiring Arachnid Labs to stop 'raising funds to purchase a unique USB VID' and 'delete all references to the USB-IF, VIDs and PIDs for transfer, resale or sublicense from your website and other marketing materials.' A slight over-reaction? Or dark conspiracy against open hardware? You decide!"
But now I have a VID :(
your USB port is certified as not unleashing terrifying cyber-demons to everything that connects to it.
But what if that is it's advertized and intended purpose? IS there something saying i can't sell a device that unleashes terrifying cyber-demons?
I see this as just plain discrimination. Won't someone think of all the cyber-demons sitting around looking for work? Please people let them work, in turn they will create more work for SysAdmins and therefor will be a job creator, please people think of the jobs!
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
Getting USB certification is like getting a pharmacist's license from a drug dealer. Perhaps it's improved somewhat (been a few years since I worked w/ it), but lots of stuff out there is/was certified but horribly non-compliant. Depending on what you were using it for, the biggest problem by far was getting your stuff to play nice w/ other stuff, even though your stuff is compliant, and the other "certified" stuff isn't. We used to have an entire lab setup just for testing that.
History is littered with "technically superior" crap that nobody adopted.
Mfh... n-- You take that back! My Dreamcast is Not CRAP! I'll show you crap!
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to change my HDDVDBVDs.
Do you know what de facto means?
Well, I know what everybody says it means, but not necessarily what the rules say it's supposed to mean.
So in other words you don't know shit.
Woosh, sir. Woosh.
It is only because you didn't use Monster Cables on the Betamax...
Stop repeating this total bullshit fanboy crap.
Yeah I agree with you, it's time VHS/Betamax fanboys stop this nonsense.
It's 21th century now, there are more important wars to be discussed, ex. : Emacs vs. Vim :-)